As Richard Nelson Bolles remarked in his best-selling career guide What Color Is Your Parachute, “The chances of employers finding reliable employees through a typical interview process is only 3 percent higher than if they picked names from a hat.” I know this firsthand from early in my 30-something year career, when I was a greenhorn…

When was the last time you conducted a particularly awesome hiring interview? What did you do to make that happen? Are you able to repeat that process for future hiring interviews? Now take a minute to recall a time when a hiring interview didn’t go so well. What factors were in play to cause the…

Years ago, I was the Human Resources Leader on a massive petrochemical start-up project based in the middle east. I was on the project for nearly 5 years, with about 2.5 years of that, spent hiring over 500 employees from 22 different countries onto the project. It was an incredible undertaking, with some of the…